new III Workshop on Economics of the Mediterranean, Barcelona June 26 - 27.
Preliminary program!
 

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III Workshop on Economics of the Mediterranean

Barcelona, June  26 - 27, 2012

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Workshop Organizers:
Jose Garcia-Montalvo (Academic Director of CREMed, UPF, ICREA, IVIE)
Eva Ventura (Executive Director of CREMed, UPF-Barcelona GSE)

The main objective of the III Workshop on Economics of the Mediterranean is to provide a forum for interaction between researchers, policy makers, and interested parties to present and discuss their research on issues identified under the various themes regarding economies and the economic impacts on development in the Mediterranean countries.

Preliminary Program
Day One - June 26th
08:30 - 09:00  Registration
09:00 - 09:30  Welcome
09:30 - 10:15  Keynote Speaker

Philip Keefer (Lead Economist, Development Research Group, The World Bank) - Collective Action and Development.
10:15 - 10:30  Pause
15:30 - 18:00  Session I - MACROECONOMICS, FINANCE AND GROWTH

Marie Luise Heinrich-Mechergui (Friederich-Schiller University) - Assessing European Mediterranean Policy: Succes Rather than Failure (with Temime Mechergui and Gerhard Wegner) abstract
Discussant: Yavuz Arslan

Tigran Poghosyan (IMF) - Spatial Spillovers in Emerging Market Spreads (with Emanuele Baldacci and Salvatore Dell'Erba) abstract 
Discussant: Marie Luise Heinrich-Mechergui

Hoda Selim (ERF) - Food international price pass-through in Egypt's inflation (with Sherine Al-Shawarby) abstract 
Discussant: Tigran Poghosyan

Yavuz Arslan (Central Bank of Turkey) - The Effects of Finantial Integration in Emerging Markets (with Temel Taskin and Fatih Fazilet)
Discussant: Hoda Selim

13:00 - 15.00  Lunch break

15:00 - 17:30  Session II - TRADE

Laura Márquez-Ramos (Universitat Jaume I) - Production integration and disintegration of North African countries into the European Union (with Inmaculada Martínez-Zarzoso) abstract 
Discussant: Chahir Zaki

Chahir Zaki (Cairo University) - On the Determinants of Trade in Services: Evidence from the MENA Region (with Frida Karam) abstract
Discussant: Inmaculada Martínez Zarzoso

Inmaculada Martínez-Zarzoso (Georg-August Universitaet Goettingen; Universitat Jaume I) - Exporting and Productivity: Evidence for Egypt and Morocco abstract
Discussant: Joachim Jarreau

Joachim Jarreau (Université of Paris 1 Pantheón-Sorbonne) - Preferential Trade Agreements Proliferation : sorting out the effects (with José de Sousa; Sami Bensassi) abstract
Discussant: Laura Márquez-Ramos

Day Two - June 27th
09:00 - 11:30  Session III - ENVIRONMENT

Reham Rizk (British University in Egypt) - Poverty, Governance and Sustainable Development: A panel data study abstract
Discussant: Nicolas Péridy

Zied Ouelhazi (IHEC Carthage) - Destination competitiveness: does sustainability matter? An econometric approach abstract
Discussant: Rajeev Goel

Nicolas Péridy (Université du Sud Toulon-Var) - The Economic Costs of Climate Change in MENA countries: A Micro-Spatial Quantitative Assessment (with Marc Brunetto; Mohamed Hazem) abstract
Discussant: Zied Ouelhazi

Rajeev Goel (University of Illinois) - Environmental Pollution in MENA Region: Effects of Shadow Economy and Corruption(with Risto Herrala) abstract
Discussant: Reham Rizk

1:30 - 12:00  Coffee and snacks
12:00 - 14:30  Session IV - HUMAN CAPITAL, LABOR AND MIGRATION

Andrés Artal-Tur (Technical University of Cartagena, Institute of International Economics IEI-UV) - Inmigrants' networks and trade creation inside the mediterranean region: the case of Italy, Spain and Portugal (with Francisco Requena-Silvente; Vicente Pallardó-López) abstract
Discussant: Núria Rodríguez-Planas
 
Yehudith Kahn (Tel Hai College) - Migration effects on workers' skills and occupational status: Turkey, Egypt and Morocco cases (with Audrey Dumas and Eshet Yovav) abstract 
Discussant: Andrés Artal-Tur 

Christophe Muller (University of Aix-Marseille)- Sharing the Cost of On-the-Job Training in Tunisia (with Christophe J. Nordman) abstract 
Discussant: Yehudith Kahn

Núria Rodríguez-Planas (IZA - Institut for the Study of Labor) -Moroccan's, Ecuadorian's and Romanian's Assimilation in Spain (with Raquel Vega) abstract
Discussant: Christophe Muller
 

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